Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>]

On 18/07/2003 09:34, Yigal Levin wrote:

> Dear Peter,
>
> While I must admit that the technical aspects of Unicode are lost on me,
> I've had enough experience with Hebrew software being incompatible with
> other Hebrew software to understand the problem. My feeling is, that many
> of the academics who deal with Biblical Hebrew are incapable of, and have
> no wish to, read anything in non-Biblical Hebrew, modern or otherwise, and
> so they treat BH as if it were an isolated corpus. Would a scholar of, say,
> Medieval French, ever dare admit that he could not read a scholarly paper
> in modern French?
>
> As for Microsoft (and others), I fear that their agenda is to always
> develop new software that is incompatible with the old, in order to force
> everyone to "upgrade".
>
>
> Yigal
>
>
>
>
> At 08:49 AM 7/18/2003 -0700, Peter Kirk wrote:
>  
>
> > No, I am not making allegations of another anti-Semitic or anti-Israel 
> > plot. ...
> >
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> Dr. Yigal Levin
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Thank you, Yigal. I will copy this one just to Peter Constable, the main 
proposer it seems, as I am not sure how well it would be received by 
some others.

By the way, I tried to send an off list (but not very important) e-mail 
to you as Yigal-Levin AT utc.edu a few days ago and it bounced. Well, maybe 
you deliberately use an invalid address on this list as a reasonable 
anti-spam measure. If it is not this, you need to check what is happening.

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Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/